Monday, June 20th, 2022

Time	Event
6:50a	Urgent: Call on Biden to designate Castner Range National Monument in El Paso, Texas, to protect the region's wildlife US citizens: call on Biden to designate Castner Range National Monument in El Paso, Texas, to protect the region's wildlife. To sign without running nonfree JavaScript code from the web site, use the Salsalabs workaround. (Comment on this)
6:50a	Urgent: Call on Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to protect the sage grouse US citizens: call on Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to protect the sage grouse. Protecting that one species actually protects many species in the ecosystem with it. (Comment on this)
6:50a	Urgent: Call on members of Congress to cosponsor the war powers resolution to end US support for Salafi Arabia's military intervention in Yemen US citizens: call on members of Congress to cosponsor the war powers resolution to end US support for Salafi Arabia's military intervention in Yemen. (Comment on this)
6:50a	Obstacles to making Putin pay A think-tank describes the obstacles to making Putin pay reparations for destruction in Ukraine. *International courts not in a position to award compensation and UN would have no enforcement power.* (Comment on this)
6:50a	7.4 million lives will be saved if the US cuts its emissions to net zero by 2050 Modelling concluded that *a total of 7.4 million lives around the world will be saved over this century if the US manages to cut its emissions to net zero by 2050.* This model considers only death caused directly by heat. Including fires, floods, heating-strengthened hurricanes, heating-spread diseases and climate-caused wars, I expect it to be hundreds of times that — but estimating that number is difficult. The model also estimates saving $3.7tn in costs to adapt to the rising heat. A way to understand that is around 70 billion per year over 50 years. (Comment on this)
6:50a	Ideas to reinvigorate Britain *I'm sick of daft Tory ideas to reinvigorate Britain, so I've come up with a few of my own.* I posted this because it is full of delightful sharp humor. (Comment on this)
6:50a	Global heating causing economic losses Global heating is causing big economic losses already. "Supply-chain problems" are often the result of this. Adding them up shows that they are a substantial part of today's inflation. Plutocratist politicians use inflation as an opportunity for dooH niboR. To invest now to reduce future inflation (and future losses) does not concern them unless it avoids losses for the rich. (Comment on this)
6:50a	UK investigating system that enabled companies to build apartments with cladding known to make it a firetrap The UK is investigating the bad system that enabled various companies to build an apartment building with cladding that was known in advance to make it a firetrap. But nothing has been done to prevent it from happening again, and the government has not arranged to fix all the building that were built with the same problem. (Comment on this)
6:50a	Republican congresscritter recorded giving tour to people who joined the attack A Republican congresscritter, Barry Loudermilk, was recorded on video giving a tour of the Capitol on Jan 5, 2021, to people who joined in the attack the following day. (Comment on this)

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